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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, AQUA MARCIA (search)
as risen since Roman times, it is impossible to identify them exactly. Nero outraged public opinion by bathing in its springs: but the aqueduct itself seems to have yielded but little to the city in his day, owing to the depredations of private persons (Frontinus cit.; Plin. NH xxxi. 42), and a further restoration was carried out by Titus in 79 A.D. (CIL vi. 1246): there is evidence of repairs by Hadrian; and others were probably made by Septimius Severus in 196 A.D. (CIL vi. 1247); while in 212-3 Caracalla cleared the springs, made some new tunnels, and added another spring, the fons Antoninianus, in connection no doubt with the construction of the branch to his thermae (ib. 1245). The aqua Marcia was joined by the AQUA TEPULA (q.v.) and the AQUA IULIA (q.v.) before the point where it emerged from its underground course, near the sixth mile of the via Latina; and their channels were carried above it on the same arches, and are to be seen in section in the Aurelian wall, just to the r
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)
(ca.). Domus Cilonis, 176. 204Arch of Severus in the Forum Boarium, 44. 209-211Restorations to Pompey's Theatre, 517. 211-217Reign of Caracalla: he constructs Via Nova, 565; builds Aqua Antoniniana, 26, 32: Pons Aurelius (?), 399; enlarges ianuae of Circus Maximus, 117; builds Temple of Serapis, 487, 492. 211-216Thermae Antoninianae, 520. Probable date of so-called Arch of Drusus, 32. Murder of Geta: inscriptions on Arches altered, 43, 44. 212-213Caracalla repairs and increases Marcia, 25-26. 215-245Excubitorium of the seventh Cohort of Vigiles, 129. 217Amphitheatrum Flavium (Colosseum) struck by lightning and partly burnt, 6. 218-222Reign of Elagabalus. 221Temple of Elagabalus dedicated, 199. Constructions on Palatine, 379. Senaculum Mulierum on Quirinal, 471. 222-235Reign of Alexander Severus: he decorates Temple of Isis, 284: of Juppiter Ultor (?), 307: Aqua Alexandrina, 20: buildings on Palatine,